Man, 73, allegedly starts Northern California wildfire by burning personal effects
The fire burned about 10 acres above the Spirit Rock Meditation Center along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.
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Fire and fury in Grateful Dead land
Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, longtime bandmates in the Grateful Dead, have just wrapped up their first tour as a duo, playing stripped-down renditions of Dead classics at six sold-out...
Police chase nine armed-robbery suspects from Sonoma to Marin County
NOVATO >> A band of armed robbery suspects from Sonoma County led police on a chase into Marin County on Monday, setting off a massive search that kept some residents...
Hippie art legend returns to Bay Area from 36-year exile
After living in Asia and Central America for four decades as an expat American artist, Dickens 44 Bascom, one of the hippie characters whose “glue art” creations made him a...
California leading way to addressing rising U.S. maternal mortality
Although the United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world, more than two women die every day during childbirth, making maternal mortality the highest...
Pregnant women need to be extra cautious during the holidays
Whether you are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the first day of winter or simply the last day of 2017, one thing is certain: December is filled with festivities, parties, travel...
Bob Dylan guitar owned by Marin man sells for $396,000
SAN ANSELMO >> Larry Cragg was a starving young guitar repairman at Prune Music in Mill Valley in 1977 when Bob Dylan’s manager brought three of Dylan’s Martin guitars into...
Northern California woman killed in Las Vegas shooting, family reports
A Facebook post from the brother-in-law of Novato resident Stacee Etcheber identified her as one of the 59 killed in a mass shooting during an outdoor concert in Las Vegas...
Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge
SAN FRANCISCO >> Over the Golden Gate Bridge’s eight decades of existence, iron workers, welders and engineers have helped keep it updated — a job that’s never done.The span turns...
Grateful Dead documentary details deification, downfall of Jerry Garcia
The first interview I ever did with the Grateful Dead was in the summer of 1973. They had just returned to Marin after playing with the Band and the Allman...
